MAP International is helping young children obtain essential, life-saving medical care in refugee camps in Africa’s war-torn regions of Darfur and Chad.

More than 250,000 people have been killed, and more than 2.5 million have been driven from their homes. Huddled in austere refugee camps, the survivors are totally dependent upon relief agencies for food, shelter, clothing and medical treatment.

Many of the camps are infested with disease, and incidents of fatal illnesses such as measles, cholera, diarrhea, meningitis and malaria are rising dramatically. More than 20 percent of children are malnourished. Physicians in displaced persons’ camps report that 75 percent of the patients seen are children under age 10. In these clinics, commonly seen illnesses are malaria, chest infections, diarrheal disease and malnutrition.

MAP International is a member of a consortium of six U.S.-based Christian humanitarian aid agencies called the Global Relief Alliance, which is pooling resources and expertise to maximize the assistance that can be provided.

The GRA has established two operating bases, one in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, and the other in Khartoum.

MAP helps operate health clinics in the villages of Um Tagouk and Sanidadi and is providing medicines and other relief supplies to people in refugee camps in Chad. Primary goals are to stabilize food supply and nutritional levels for families, ensure clean drinking water and sanitation facilities and to treat and prevent disease.

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